Doubt by Omkar Jilla

Sir peptidoglycan NAG and NAM dono se bana h isiliye use heteropolymer kehte h;

But chitin to HOMOpolymer hona chaiye na bcoz wo to sirf NAG se bana h?

Answers

Answer by Jay Prakash

chitin is a homopolysaccharide

Answer by Omkar Jilla

ha to sir m b wahi keh rha hu,

so here the answer should be option (B)

Answer by Pradeep Kumar

ya exactly... plzzz explain

Answer by Isha Agarwal

the given answer is correct.

Chitin is homopolymer of NAG/NAM and heteropolymer of glucose derivative.

Answer by Omkar Jilla

isha ncert itself says that chitin is a complex HOMOpolymer. so, the given answer both a and b is definitely wrong.

Answer by Pradeep Kumar

isha you are correct but here nothing is mentioned so in general we have to take chitin as homopolymer only